Little blue butterflies

dreamdaisy
dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
edited 3. Jun 2010, 14:00 in Community Chit-chat archive
I've been upstairs, watching the tennis, when I spotted four or five very small, bright lavender-blue butterflies dancing about outside, plus about 5 million greenfly. What are the butterflies called - does anyone know - and yes, delboy, I know they're called butterflies! Would they be eating the greenfly? Perhaps this is one for springwatch. Dreamdaisy
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben

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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Is it

    the cupido minimus???

    he he!! googled it really am not an expert - is a shade of micra blue??

    Toni xx
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hey

    there was another message on thsi one a minute ago which has disapeared...

    how odd! think I might let the mods know...???

    Toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    cupido minimus? What a lovely name, little cupid springs to mind! Yes, it is a Daisy colour blue, when she's clean that is. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Honestly I googled it and they look lovley there was a picture so you could confirm it yourself.

    Really pretty.



    You knwo I ahvent seen many butterflies at all yet this year.

    My buddlia normally gets them, but its not flowering yet.

    Love

    Toni xx
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I don't think butterflies eat other insects, they feed primarily on nectar that's why they have a long proboscis to dip into the centre of flowers. some also gain nourishment from rotting fruit and tree sap.

    Luv Legs who's pretending to be David Attenborough :wink:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Legs

    are you an entomologist??

    Love

    Toni

    who is really impressed :)
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    frogmorton wrote:
    Legs

    are you an entomologist??

    Love

    Toni

    who is really impressed :)

    No Toni I just know how to Google too :wink::lol::lol:

    XX
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    They might have been the common blue butterfly, which as the name suggests, is the most common one in the UK.

    http://www.uksafari.com/commonblue.htm
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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Spot on, joanlawson, they are that. At least I know now! Thanks, everyone. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • page35
    page35 Member Posts: 1,081
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ohh
    i get them in my garden.
    we once had a swam of white butterflies there were about 50 of them all dancing around, i was glad my mum was here to see them cos no one would have belived me.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi sharon

    Hope you are ok?

    Good to see you :)

    I have hardly seen any yet this year :(

    Is it because you lot are further south?


    Toni xx
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Sharon,

    Lucy spotted one yesterday. They must be local.

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Seven tonight. And still millions of greenfly. They're at the front of the house.

    At the back, however . . . . . one huge, plug-ugly stag beetle. Shudder. I do not like them, especially when they fly. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben

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